[Leica] Nathan's PAW 15: This and that

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant)]

Nathan Wajsman showed:
Subject: [Leica] Nathan's PAW 15: This and that


> Last week the weather in NW Europe was horrible. It was raining solid more 
> or less the entire week. Sunday morning I was so happy to wake up to 
> something resembling sunshine that I grabbed the camera and the day's 
> first coffee and headed out onto my back porch:
> http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2005/2005_15.jpg

Hi Nathan,
The weather shot is kind of interesting but doesn't appear to be as well 
executed as your following photographs. Maybe you needed to wait for the 
second cup of coffee! ;-)  Maybe cropping tighter or lighter through 
exposure to get the feel of the sunshine more obvious then we might have 
seen the sunshine as you felt it and saw it from your perspective of being 
in the rain and crude weather for so long.

 > Later in the day I went for a walk with my daughter and the dog, which
> yielded these two pictures (with on-topic equipment, BTW):
> http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2005/2005_15alt1.jpg
> http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2005/2005_15alt2.jpg<<<<<<

See both of these are right on the mark, particularly the captured body 
language of your daughter. This is a real moment and not posed as I don't 
believe she would have the natural look in her eyes nor the body if you 
posed her. it's like a "SEE-SHOOT" moment!

> Last week I also began a quasi-project, namely to photograph my colleagues 
> at the office. Partly because I do spend a large part of my life with 
> these people, partly because most of them are nice guys/gals, and partly 
> because our company is about to be sold, and in 6 months most of us will 
> be working somewhere else.
> Here is Joop, our computer guru, about to reboot the universe:
> http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2005/2005_15alt3.jpg
> and my office-mates Jan and Sander looking at some ugly database:
> http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2005/2005_15alt4.jpg<<<<<<<<<<

This is something I've done for many years when on assignments when there 
are a number of photographers, IE: Olympics, political elections or other 
major events. I shoot them when they don't know I've done it and then later 
send a print or now it's much easier as a JPEG copy.

Apropos the photos of your colleagues.

This past weekend I was in Calgary as key note speaker while attending the 
25th Anniversary of the Western Canadian News Photographers Association. And 
in my slide presentation I closed with a shot taken in 1968 on NATO military 
exercise in Northern Norway of a Canadian Armed Forces staff photographer 
who eventually became chief photographer for the Edmonton Journal and 
founding father of the association. What was really neat was, he never knew 
I'd taken the shot and it blew he and many in the 100 or so attendees away.

Sometimes a photo of colleagues can be very interesting and overwhelming at 
times years later.

ted..